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satellite A small body that orbits a larger one, particularly the natural satellites of the planets. A natural satellite is also known informally as a
moon. All the planets have at least one natural satellite, except Mercury and Venus. A spacecraft sent into orbit around the Earth or another body is an
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Strange days In the heart of the Black Rock Desert, there's no water and temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's an extraordinary place - and the perfect venue for the weirdest event in the cultural calendar
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...astonishing beauty of the Black Rock Desert in north-western Nevada...hour road from the desert back to Reno. It would...and some told tales of deserts in Nevada where abandonment...playa of the Black Rock Desert (where the mountains...
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Profile: Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 9/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Profile: Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada Host: HOWARD BERKES Time...records on the supremely smooth Black Rock Desert nearby. But in 1990...wooden figure of a man, also in the Black Rock Desert. That's become a...
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PROTECTION BEING SOUGHT FOR BLACK ROCK DESERT IN NEVADA
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 4/6/2000; ; 655 words
; ...out to protect northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert. "With Nevada's population booming...canyons and dry lake beds in the Black Rock Desert. He wants to create...solve the problem of protecting the Black Rock Desert with a Nevada solution...
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BURNING MAN: WILD MINDS FLOCK TO NEVADA'S BLACK ROCK DESERT IT'S WEIRD, EVEN FREAKY, AND YET STRANGELY MOVING.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 9/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...nowhere, otherwise known as the Black Rock Desert in Nevada - about an hour and a...have come up with something like Black Rock City. There doesn't seem...a chocolate bar for batteries. Black Rock City, built each year to house...
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Black Rock Desert out for summer.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/11/1999; ; 338 words
; Black Rock Desert, winner of the Group 3 Prix de Saint...quarters. O'Brien said yesterday: "Black Rock Desert is very sore. The problem...of the season before he runs again." Black Rock Desert was being viewed as a contender...
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Rocketeers: the world's highest-flying kit-built rockets shake the Black Rock desert.(Nevada)
Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...night sky. Flames lick the desert floor. Almost faster than...Gerlach, Nevada, in the Black Rock desert, amateur rocket...rocketeers, a trip to Black Rock is where a year or...made designs as well. At Black Rock we saw one modeled...
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The Curragh: Black Rock Desert earns Guineas quote.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...star potential at The Curragh yesterday when debutant Black Rock Desert earned a 12-1 quote from Ladbrokes for the Sagitta...including Stravinsky and Group 1 winner Orpen. He said: "Black Rock Desert is really good and is up there with the best...
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Dr. Marc Nelson to the Black Rock Desert - stat.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 8/31/2009; 700+ words
; ...people. At Burning Man, the annual art festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, Nelson is one of three medical chiefs...different. The first time I went up with this group, the Black Rock Rangers, who are kind of like unofficial police...
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Burning man: a temporary tribe with many gifts: Justina Prenatt experiences mysterious mayhem in Reno, Nevada.(Black Rock Desert of Nevada)
Magazine article from: New Life Journal; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Deep in the dry and decorated landscape of the Black Rock Desert lives another world: an antidote to capitalism and...minded survivalists congregate for one week in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. It is the home of Burning Man...
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168 HOURS; Art, music, birth, death, dust, heat and cold combine to make the Sunday to Sunday Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert a vacation for some, a rite of passage for others and a spiritual journey for many
Newspaper article from: Boise Weekly; 9/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...last year, I have obsessed about returning to the Black Rock Desert two hours north of Reno, Nevada. On an ancient...beautiful. While one can find sex, drugs and sin in Black Rock City, one can also find these things in any American...
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Black Rock Desert
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Black Rock Desert arid region of lava beds and alkali flats, NW...Gerlach. The Jackson Mts. rise to the east; the Black Rock Range to the west. A land speed record was...Desert, to the SW of Gerlach, is an extension of Black Rock.
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Rock Climber's Store & Café
Book article from: Business Plans Handbook
Rock Climber's Store &...located one mile from Smith Rock State Park in the central Oregon desert. It is conveniently located...and 25 percent to Smith Rock State Park restoration...such as Trago, Petzl, Black Diamond, Beal, Ushba...
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Pixies
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...June 1965). Genre: Rock Best-selling album since...adopted the stage name Black Francis, and the Pixies...playing shows in Boston. Black Francis proved to be a...s delicate vocals with Black Francis's manic, possessed...evoke the cold nocturnal desert chill of the legendary...
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Queens of the Stone Age
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...early-1990s stoner-rock legends Kyuss. “...very clearly born of the desert — hits you...their guitar-heavy rock odysseys, which often...the band comparisons to Black Sabbath. Signed to Elektra...alternative and metal rock acts, and were invited...dirt and lizards and ...
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Rapid City: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...Recreation Sightseeing The Black Hills Visitor Information...of rare and beautiful rocks, gems, and minerals...Plains. Displays of rock formations, fossilized...Research Center. The Black Hills region's frontier...and other tropical and desert plants in its Skydome...largest collection of ...
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